587 So. 2d 898 - Bruce v. Bruce’s Empirical Analysis
1991
Citation profile
46 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 46 later decisions — most recently November 2018 · most notably 646 So. 2d 1264 - Morreale v. Morreale (1994), 735 So. 2d 1109 - Carter v. Carter (1999)
46 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Browder v. Director Department of Corrections of Illinois · Griggs v. Provident Consumer Discount Co. · White v. New Hampshire Department of Employment Security · Osterneck v. Ernst & Whinney · 444 So. 2d 358 - Brown v. Credit Center, Inc.
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 46 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“proceed[s] on the assumption that the trial court has entered a valid and enforceable judgment which has become final.”
5 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence“(1) fraud, misrepresentation, or other misconduct of an adverse party; (2) accident or mistake; (3) newly discovered evidence which by due diligence could not have been discovered in time to move for a new trial under Rule 59(b); • (4) the judgment is void; (5) the judgment has been satisfied, released, or discharged, or a prior judgment upon which it is based has been reversed or otherwise vacated, or it is no longer equitable that the judgment should have prospective application; (6) any other reason justifying relief from the judgment.”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrencee.g. Dean v. Slade · Davis v. State“for lawyers and litigants who had procedural opportunities afforded under other rules and who without cause failed to pursue those procedural remedies. Rather,”
4 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.